ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Mon, 6 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/926197/embassy-of-finland-in-new-delhi-renovation-ala-architects Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:00:00 +0000 Daniel Tapia https://www.archdaily.com/926197/embassy-of-finland-in-new-delhi-renovation-ala-architects Reima and Raili Pietilä won the design competition for the Finnish Embassy to be located in the diplomatic enclave in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi in 1963 with a beautiful and powerful competition entry called “Snow speaks on the mountains”. After a lengthy delay, the project was commissioned in 1980 and redesigned based on the original concept. The Embassy finally opened in 1986 with the large single expanse of the roof of the 1960’s design broken up into six separate lateral buildings around a central garden area. The sculptural roofs - the most significant architectural feature of the embassy compound - resemble the forms of the snowy Lake Kitkajärvi near Kuusamo, Northern Finland.

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